# "Help" in LamdaCore

"Jamal A. Wills" (jwills@thuntek.net)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:37:54 PDT

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    On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Juliean Galak wrote:

    > I am quite new to the admin side of MOOing, but I recently set up a MOO,
    > mostly to play with.  I am running LambdaMOO 1.8.0p5 and the whichever
    > version of LambdaCore was current as of two weeks ago.  My problem is that
    > some of hte help topics are missing.  For examle the entire "building"
    > hierarchy is missing.  What's going on?  is this something I'm doing or is
    > it a bug in the core?  Can this be fixed short of putting in a new version
    > of the core? (that is not desirable since we have created many objects on it)
    >
    > Thanx..

    I had the same problem.  Somehow it isn't 'installed' so to speak, but
    the help database is included in my LambdaCore.
    Try finding the children of generic help:
    @kids $generic_help
    Generic Help Database(#30) has 8 kids.
    Help Database(#59)   Editor Help(#43)   Builtin Function Help(#28)   Wizard
     Help(#23)   Programmer Help(#22)   Core Utility Help(#19)   Builder Help
     DB(#85)   Mail Commands Help Db(#86)

    This shows you the object number of Builder Help.  Then you find what
    .help is set for generic builder:
    @parents me
    Wizard(#2)   generic wizard(#56)   generic programmer(#57)   generic
     builder(#4)   Frand's player class(#90)   Generic Mail Receiving Player(#91)
      generic player(#6)   Root Class(#1)
    @show #4.help
    #4.help
    Owner:        Galaxia (#2)
    Permissions:  rc
    Value:        0

    It should be set to Builder help:
    ; #4.help = #85
    => #85  (Builder Help DB)

    Then it should work!  You should also check to see if you are getting all
    of the Mail help.  I had to set #91.help to #86 to get it to work.

    >
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